48 FIFTH ANNUAL REPORT 



detached, piled in a heap and burned, and new ones attached in their 

 places. If eight bandages are used to each tree during the season, 

 the cost will be just two cents per tree; and the owner could well 

 aflford to treble the number of sheets, and keep three on each tree, 

 either together or in different places. 



2. — Rags. These have very much the same effect as paper, but 

 are more costly and difficult to get of the requisite length. Where 

 they can be had cheaply, they may be detached from the tree and 

 scalded with their contents. 



3. — The Wier-trap, used as recommended last year, is, perhaps, the 

 next most useful ; but both cost and time required to destroy the 

 worms, are greater than in the first two methods. 



4. — The lath belt is the very best of all traps, so far as efficiency 

 goes ; but it is placed 4th on the list, because of the greater cost and 

 trouble of making. On the same kinds of tree, (Early Harvest), and 

 in the same orchard, I have taken, with this belt, between June 15th 

 and July 1st, as many as 68, and 99 larvae and pupos, against 14 and 20 

 in the single Wier-trap. 



5, — Hay-bands, on account of their greater inconvenience, I place 

 last. 



The experiments were mostly made in a large and rather neg- 

 lected orchard, belonging to Mrs. Spencer Smith. 



All these methods are good, and the orchardist will be guided in 

 his choice by individual circumstances. 



JARRING. 



Regarding this plan, I reproduce the following item, which I sent 

 to the Coxintry Gentleman last summer: 



" Being much pleased with Mr. Chapin's method of freeing his 

 orchard of apple-worms, as described in your issue lor January 25th, 

 I inserted a description of his process in my fourlh Report, with a few 

 comments as to the time when the jarring should be commenced. Mr. 

 Ohapin commences when the little brown masses of excrements are 

 first observed on the outside of the apples, generally near the blossom 

 end. As these masses of excrement — these "exudations," as Mr. 

 Chapin terms them — are usually sure signs that the worm has already 

 left the fruit, it struck me that jarring should commence somewhat 

 earlier, and I suggested the first rather than the middle of July. But 

 I find this spring that this excrement is only an indication of the 

 worm's exit, with some varieties, while with others the worm may be 

 often found after these exudations are visible. In justice to Mr. 

 Chapin, I take the first opportunity to make the correction. Our blos- 

 soming season, in this latitude, was nearly two weeks later than usual, 

 and I caught the first worms, under bandages, on the 13th of June." 



To prevent bruising of the branches, it will be well, as suggested 

 by Mr. J. Fitz, of Albemarle county, Virginia, {Country Gentleman^ 

 August 2), to use a light pole, with a short fork, padded with some 

 soft material at one end. This can be jarred by means of a mallet. 



